Building an Ecosystem for Hackers

When you build software for people who build software, you need to provide your users with ways to build enhancements, hacks, and eventually new features/products inside your product. In this talk, learn how Atlassian enables this using several developer tools and frameworks inside their products.

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1. H4ck3rs BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM FOR
2. H4CK3RS ARE PEOPLE TOO
3. 1 4M 4 H4CK3R! I am a hacker!
4. U R 4 H4CK3R 2! you are a hacker too!
5. Rich Manalang @rmanalan
7. THE SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE idea! prototype code ship! rinse, repeat, over and over again... until your product is bloated and code begins to stink
8. GET OFF MY LAWN! Conventional Wisdom: Users are stupid. Software is hard. Supporting software sucks. We want simple.
9. HOW CAN WE EMPOWER OUR USERS?
10. option 1 BUILD OPINIONATED SOFTWARE
11. option 2 BUILD A PLATFORM THEY CAN HACK ON
12. your product TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT product #1 sandboxed env apis, etc. product #2 apis you you
13. WHO DOES #1 WELL? ★ Apple ★ Android ★ Atlassian ★ Chrome/Firefox ★ WordPress ★ Many others... gut based sampling
15. HOW WE DO THIS AT ATLASSIAN
16. START WITH A PLUGIN FRAMEWORK
18. SPEAKEASY
23. PIMP IT WITH REST
26. SPEAKING OF PLUGINS, HOW DOES ONE BUILD ONE?
29. I’VE BUILT MY PLUGIN. NOW WHAT?
31. HEY, WE’VE GOT A COMMUNITY!
40. IN THE END...
41. we’re hiring! lots! THANKS!